Just when you think you know what your doing {Damn you autism}

     Last night, after bath time, while my wife was reading our nightly bed time books to the youngest two boys I heard something strange. A sound like POP! Then uncontrollable giggling for a second, then silence for a second... POP! giggle giggle giggle! When we peeked around the corner into Jayden's room he is laying in bed watching a balloon drift its way into the ceiling fan, get hit, then drift its way back in again. I think this is the equivalent to the kids who drop the toy & play with the box.
     I'm not sure what the deal is with him over fall break. The break in routine has thrown him off I guess. It really started shortly before fall break when, because of a school event or something like that, his class got to play during P.E. so when lunch recess came along the P.E. teacher made them run a mile in laps around the playground for exercise. His teacher said she happened to be on lunch duty & saw him dead last crawling. She helped him up & jogged with him the rest of the way, I'm sure enduring his out of breath explanations on why this was torture. The rest of the day I'm sure was shot & ever since he has been stimming but also he has been lethargic, even depressed acting at times. At his cousins birthday party he refused the offer of cake! This kids is autistic not dead! When a 9 year old refuses cake something is up! He didn't want to go to the zoo so we let him hang out with his cousin, who is his one & only real friend but when we picked him up he was just sitting on the couch. I said "hey buddy, whats up?" "Nothin'...board". I e-mailed his teacher last night to give her a heads up that today, the first day back from fall break, was probably going to be a rough one but I guess we will see. I'm just not sure what's up this time. It's so odd how after all this time you think you have a really good grasp on this stuff but then you get stumped. Almost like he is throwing you for a loop just to make sure you know...no, you don't have all the answers! Damn you autism! haha

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5 comments:

  1. It's so true! When my autistic son, Ronan, was in mainstream school, we would anticipate having 'bad days' at least once every 2 months. It was like that with his toilet training. Just when you thought everything was starting to fall into place...some mysterious alarm clock would go off and so would Ronan. It is some what comforting to know there are others that understand :)

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  2. Understanding and care. That's the two things to consider if you are dealing with a person who've got autism. Actually, a pediatrician in oceanside health clinic also said that what these kids need is proper attention and love cause most of the times by just showing those they will be able to understand that main reason why you're doing that specific thing for them is because you sincerely and really care for them.

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  3. When I was a kid, I was diagnosed with autism too. My mom was sick when she had me and maybe that cause it. My doctor said that it can be the main reason why I had those so she reminded me to always take my daily meds and preferred online vitamins too.

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  4. Our son was diagnosed with autism too and we had him checked at lynnwood walk in clinic. They were very accommodating and helpful I may say.

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  5. When we were told that our niece has autism, we thought of sending her mother to drug rehab new york . Good thing her mother agreed with us and the good news is our niece is getting better now.

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